Today's News

Jessica Donahue had four of the Fremont-Mills softball team's season-high 16 hits in a 15-1 Corner Conference victory over Sidney on Thursday.

The Knights improve to 9-4 overall and remain undefeated at 5-0 in the conference.

Donahue, a senior shortstop, was 4-for-5 at the plate with a pair of doubles and two runs driven in.

Pitcher Mindy Lorimor, who struck out 13 and scattered five hits over six innings of work to earn the win in the circle, helped her own cause with two hits and three RBIs.

The Glenwood girls soccer team capped its first Hawkeye 10 Conference title season with four first-team selections on the 2009 all-conference team.

Mallory Hoyt, Michaela Moore, Hope Forman and Nicole Sowers were all tabbed for the first team from Glenwood. Moore, a freshman, led the 14-2 Rams with 17 goals this season. Hoyt led the team in assists with 12 and was second in goals with 15.

Forman and Sowers were both recognized for their sterling defensive work. Sowers, a senior, started every game in goal for the Rams this year.

SILVER CITY - The writing has been on the wall for several months, but that doesn’t make a pending bank closing any easier to swallow for the Mills County community of Silver City.

On Friday, Omaha-based First National Bank will close what’s believed to be its smallest branch location - in Silver City.

“It’s kind of like losing a limb,” Silver City City Clerk Cheryl Evans said Monday. “Everybody hates to see it happen. It is a sign of a city dying when you lose a business like this.”

The Glenwood Board of Education voted to increase the cost of school lunches and preschool tuition but declined to increase student text book fees for the 2009-2010 school year at its monthly meeting last Monday, June 8.

The board voted unanimously for a five-cent increase for student lunches to $2 per meal and a 30-cent increase for teacher and adult lunches to $2.80. Breakfast costs will remain the same.